Article
Oil Content and Fatty Acids Composition in Brassica Species
2015-10-01
Abstract excerpt
Seeds of 20 accessions of six Brassica species including cultivated and five wild relatives were analyzed for oil and fatty acid composition. The results showed that oil content varied from 21 (B. nigra) to 46% (B. napus). Among wild species, B. rapa and B. oleracea had highest oil content (31 and 28%, respectively). The main fatty acids of oleic, linoleic, linolenic, erucic, palmitic, and stearic acids accounted...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 9f7995a5-4ab6-53bb-8805-da05c9e36f14
- DOI
- 10.1080/10942912.2014.968284
